Word: merely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...left-wing Students' Federation (220,000 members) called for a demonstration in front of the U.S. embassy. Even the Egyptian press received the Soviet announcement coolly. Said Cairo's Al Akhbar: "It would appear that the U.S. and British governments look upon the Soviet proposals as a mere means for obtaining people's applause...
...cooing, from the Summit to an all-out economic offensive. "We will bury you,'' he said boisterously in November 1956 at a Moscow reception, and the burial plans are many. And it is equally clear that against Khrushchev's threats the U.S. cannot be satisfied with mere counterprograms to Soviet programs, counterploys to Soviet ploys, counter-propaganda to Soviet propaganda...
Foreign oil accounts for about 12% of the U.S. market, deprives U.S. producers of barely 2 bbl. per well daily. But many economists argue that quotas are unfair to a large and growing segment of U.S. business; from a mere handful of companies in 1946, there are now more than 100 firms operating overseas that contribute hundreds of millions of dollars to the U.S. economy each year...
...still trying to figure out how he did it. With his breeding he should not have the staying power to finish a mile-and-a-furlong derby with a sprint. His sire, the Irish-bred Sullivan, seldom lasted more than a mile; his dam. Lady N Silk, also seemed mere horseflesh. With his build, Silky hardly looks like a thoroughbred at all. He has heavy jowls, the neck of a Percheron and the broad chest of a Turkish wrestler. He clops solidly up to the starting gate as if he were there only to pull it into position. Indeed, Silky...
...death of the old-fashioned list price, the U.S. businessman has largely himself to thank. In the days of postwar shortages, the oldtime salesman gave way to mere order-takers, who sold only on the basis of price. And since the "list price" often differs widely from store to store, customers have lost faith in quoted prices, trust only in their own ability to haggle like shoppers in an Oriental bazaar. Says Aubra Johnston of Chicago's Better Business Bureau: "The so-called manufacturer's list price is for the most part baloney. The manufacturer inflates because...